• To better understand your question
Did the lit review help you to understand the question
• To determine current/historical known
What are people currently thinking
Show the context
• To check alignment or conflict with your hypothesis
How does that relate to your hypothesis?
Who agrees or disagrees with you?
Look at the perspectives
Confront your critics
• To identify concepts/practices upon which you will build
Borrow and ideas
Annotated: summary - link to your opinion and how it fits into your body of research
What's the best way for us to the Lit. Review - thematic or annotated?
Annotated Literature Review
Situate the authority/background of the author(s)
Identify the intended audience
Explain how this work illuminates your topic
Compare or contrast this work with another you have cited
Compare or contract a current view with an historic one.
Example:
Sociology Department researchers at Brown University (2008) used data from a 10-year longitudinal study of young adults (18 – 24) to test a hypothesis that non-family living by young adults before marriage alters their attitudes, values, plans and marital expectations, moving them away from their beliefs in traditional sex roles.
Increased time living away from parents before marriage increased:
Individualism
self-sufficiency
Tolerance for different task/role arrangements.
Effects were stronger in women than men. Outcome differs from earlier study by Williams (1980) implicating general change in social attitudes.
Literature Review:
• To better understand your question
Did the lit review help you to understand the question
• To determine current/historical known
What are people currently thinking
Show the context
• To check alignment or conflict with your hypothesis
How does that relate to your hypothesis?
Who agrees or disagrees with you?
Look at the perspectives
Confront your critics
• To identify concepts/practices upon which you will build
Borrow and ideas
Annotated: summary - link to your opinion and how it fits into your body of research
What's the best way for us to the Lit. Review - thematic or annotated?
Annotated Literature Review
Example:
Sociology Department researchers at Brown University (2008) used data from a 10-year longitudinal study of young adults (18 – 24) to test a hypothesis that non-family living by young adults before marriage alters their attitudes, values, plans and marital expectations, moving them away from their beliefs in traditional sex roles.
Increased time living away from parents before marriage increased:
- Individualism
- self-sufficiency
- Tolerance for different task/role arrangements.
Effects were stronger in women than men. Outcome differs from earlier study by Williams (1980) implicating general change in social attitudes.